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SPECIAL 



ITEMIZED REPORT 



-OF THE 



BOW OF POM EINUHIIIEK 



-TO THE- 



JOINT INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE 



■OF THE 



TWO BRANCHES OF THE CITY COUNCIL. 




Wm, J. C. Dulany Co., Printers, 

Baltimore, Md. 

1901. 



Special Itemized Repor' 

^r^ OF THE 

JoaV* ..vera,, 




OF 






Joint Committee of the Two Branches 
of the City Council, 

Appointed on October 17TH, 1901, for the 

Purpose of Investigating the 

Accounts of the Board. 



A PRESENTATION OF FACTS: 

Accompanied by Tabulated Statements in the Nature of Exhibits, 

Showing the Total Receipts— and from what sources derived— 

Since January ist, 1900, up to and including the 18th day of 

October, 1901; and showing the Nature, Purpose and 

Amount of all Debts, Paid and Unpaid, Contracted 

during that time, with References to Ledger 

Folios and thence to the Bills or Vouchers 

themselves for Verification. 

Placed in the hands of the Chairman of the Committee 
Wednesday, November 13th, igoi. 



Wm. J. C. Dulany Co., Printers, 
Baltimore, Md. 






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By transfer 

MAY 2 1910 






SPECIAL ITEMIZED REPORT 

OF THE 

BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS. 



November 13th, 1901. 

To the Honorable the Joint Special Park Board Investigation 
Committee: 

Gentlemen: With this the Park Board of Baltimore 
City sends you, in compliance with the resolution passed by 
your body requesting it to be done, two tabulated statements 
marked Nos. 1 and 2, showing all the receipts of and payments 
made for bills contracted by the Board of the present adminis- 
tration during the year 1900 and the year 1901 up to and in- 
cluding the 1 8th day of October, 1901. 

CONVENIENT ARRANGEMENT. 

You will find the expenditures divided as to the different 
parks, and the different purposes for which the money was 
spent, with references opposite each item to the ledger folios, 
and thence to the bills themselves, which will enable such 
items and entries to be examined and verified. This state- 
ment is a transcript from our ledger, arranged in the way 
we thought most convenient for reference and verification. 

Statement "No. 3" is a copy of a list of bills aggregating 
$130,707.12, too lengthy for publication, paid during the 
year 1900, made by two employes of the city, one from the 
Comptroller's office and the other from the Tax office, who 
did so at the request of the Mayor. 

An examination of such bills, exclusive of those for in- 
terest and sinking fund, shows that to the amount of.... $23,139 55 

They were contracted in the year 1899, and prior to the 1st 
of March, 1900, by our predecessors. 

It will also appear that the expenditures for salaries and 

labor in 1900, before our appointment, amounted to 20,797 30 

Sinking fund and interest on loans for the year 1900 

amounted to 53, 514 68 



Making ' $ 97,451 53 

The receipts for the year 1900 were 296,594 73 

97,45i 53 



And leaving.... $199,143 20 

to be expended by our Board for salaries, labor and supplies con- 
tracted during the remaining ten months of the year. 



FIRST QUARTER RECEIPTS. 

By reference to the financial statement submitted to your 
Committee by the Comptroller, it will be seen that the receipts 
to March i, 1900, were $72,085.30, and a reference to the 
books, either in the Comptroller's or the Park Board's office, 
will show the receipts from rents, fines, etc., for the month of 
March, 1900, to have been $106.85, so that the entire receipts 
for the first quarter of 1900 were $72,877.82. Of this the 
previous Board, as shown by the Comptroller's statement, paid 
out $28,072.50 in January and February, 1900, and left a bal- 
ance of February bills due of $16,373.77, so that of the first 
quarter's receipts the previous Board in two months consumed 
$44,446.27 for expenses, exclusive of pay-rolls. Add to this 
$20,797.30, the amount paid out for services and labor during 
the two months of 1900 the previous Board had control, and 
you have a total of $65,243.57, or over nine-tenths (9-10) of 
the first quarter's receipts consumed in two-thirds of the 
quarter, leaving the incoming Board less than one-tenth (1-10) 
of the receipts to maintain for one-third of the quarter all the 
parks and squares maintained by previous Boards, and in 
addition thereto Eutaw Place, Broadway Squares, Harlem 
Park, Perkins Spring, L,afayette Square, Franklin Square, 
Union Square, Eastern City Springs, Madison Square, Jack- 
son Square, Fulton Avenue Squares, Park Place, Wilkens 
Avenue Squares, Mount Vernon and Washington Place, Lib- 
erty Triangle, Linden Avenue Triangle, and all monuments 
in the city. 

HANDICAPPED IN BEGINNING. 

Had the previous Board not contracted, in 1899, $21,780.93 
more than it could pay for — which are the figures on the 
Comptroller's tabulated statement — the incoming Board would 
have had for one-third of the quarter, as it should have had, 
one-third of $72,877.82 (the first quarter's receipts), or 
$24,292.64, instead of only $7,634.25, so that the new admin- 
istration was handicapped in the beginning to the extent of 
$18,658.39, and necessarily carried over many bills from one 



quarter to another, until at the close of the last quarter it was 
necessary to carry over $18,751.68 into the first quarter of the 
present year. 

Statement No. 4 is a copy of a list — too lengthy for publi- 
cation — prepared in the Comptroller's office, of bills aggregat- 
ing $81,840.75, paid in the year 1901, and from which it will 
appear, with the corrections we have noted, that among them 
were bills contracted during the year 1900 to the extent of 
$18,751.68; so that in both 1900 and 1901 we have paid bills 
to the extent of many thousands of dollars contracted during 
the preceding year, and an examination as to other years will 
disclose the fact that this has been always done. 

OTHER STATEMENTS. 

Statement No. 5 shows in the minutest detail the amount 
expended for the construction of greenhouses to have been, in 
the four larger parks, $41,774.96, which will result in a saving 
of about $15,000 per annum, and in three years the structures, m 
which will all be of permanent and increasing value and use- 
fulness for all time to come, will have been far more than paid 
for by such saving. 

Statement No. 6 is a transcript of figures from the City 
Register's office, showing receipts and disbursements from 
1890 to 1900, inclusive, from which it will appear that during 
those years the actual payments were nearly always more 
than the receipts. In 1891 the actual payments were $39,770.- 
06 more than the receipts. In 1892 $12,442.70 more, and 
in six more of the eleven years they were beyond receipts, but 
for smaller amounts. 

This does not show unpaid bills in those years, because the 
Register's office only has figures of bills actually paid, but 
there always were unpaid bills carried over from year to 
year, which, without the payroll, as shown when our Board 
came in, amounted to $21,780,93, as shown by the Comp- 
troller's tabulated statement recently furnished you. This 
does not show on the Register's statement — No. 6 — for the. 
reason named, but even it shows the sum of $5,666.25 paid in 
excess of receipts. 



Statement No. 7 consists of extracts from the minutes of 
the Board from March n, 1897, to November 9, 1899, and 
shows the difficulties of former Boards, and that there never 
was a year when any of them could have paid promptly all 
the expenses of that year; and in addition to these state- 
ments, we have thought it might not be inappropriate to 
furnish some additional information, and, therefore, have 
added the following: 

INADEQUATE PROVISION. 

The history of the Park Board, almost from its inception to 
the present time, shows that it was frequently in need of 
money, for the reason that the provision made for it was in- 
adequate. The citizens of Baltimore have never been taxed 
at all directly or contributed in any degree to the funds used 
for park purposes, with perhaps a single exception as at 
present informed, in its early history, when the City Council 
t appropriated about $10,000 to build a barn and stable, now 
located near the Druid Hill avenue entrance to Druid Hill 
Park. 

With this exception, so far as we have learned, none of the 
Parks of Baltimore has cost the taxpayers a cent, and yet 
every now and then some person speaks of the expenditure of 
the park fund, as if it were money taken from the taxpayers 
and their interests were at stake. This idea that the tax- 
payer's money is used for park purposes has been repeatedly 
stated, and the citizens generally, who cannot be expected to 
know such things, are not at all to blame if they suppose the 
park fund is obtained, like other city funds, by direct tax- 
ation . 

FUNDS DIVERTED. 

The truth is that the United Railways, because of legisla- 
tion requiring it to be done, pays to the city for the use of 
the Park Board, with a view to its being expended in accord- 
ance with the provisions of the Charter for the maintenance 
and support of the different parks, about $300,000, and in 
addition to this the United Railways pay taxes to a large 



amount on its property. Instead of this sum of $300,000 
being at the disposal of the Park Board to be expended as the 
Charter says it should be — for the maintenance and support 
of the parks — about $53,400 each year is deducted from it by 
the city authorities to pay interest upon loans made by the 
city for money used in the purchase of parks, and for the 
sinking fund, to pay the bonds or obligations given by the 
city, for the purchase of Druid Hill and other parks. This is 
done by Act of the Legislature, supplemented by ordinances, 
so that about $53,400 is not at the disposal of the Park Board 
for the maintenance and support of the parks, as the Charter 
says it should be, but is diverted and taken away to pay the 
interest upon these obligations of the city, instead of being 
used for the legitimate purpose for which it was intended. 
Of course, this is not the fault of this administration, which 
must administer the law as it finds it, but it is a fault which 
should be remedied, because the result, as stated, is that 
instead of the Park Board having $300,000 to pay the many 
expenses of all the parks and squares of the City of Baltimore, 
it has only about $246,600. 

UNJUSTIFIABLE STATEMENTS. 

It seems to us that the citizens of Baltimore should under- 
stand this situation and the responsibilities of the Park Board, 
and the demands it is necessarily required to meet; and if 
they do understand it, they should not countenance or endure 
the unjustifiable statements which have been made in refer- 
ence to park affairs. 

For instance, figures which were all true in reference to the 
Board's receipts and expenditures have been quoted and com- 
mented upon as if they showed at this time something entirely 
unusual and unheard of; while, in fact, such conditions have 
always existed. 

Having premised that Park Boards, from the time of the 
acquisition of the parks up to the present, found the amount 
from time to time at their disposal insufficient — especially at 
certain periods of the year — for matters absolutely necessary 
to be provided for, let us come down to a very recent period. 



The Board appointed under the present administration, in 
March, 1900, found that its predecessors had not paid all 
claims contracted by it, so that the Department of Parks 
under the present administration, taking the Comptroller's 
figures, started out with $16,373.77 of unpaid bills on hand, 
contracted before it took charge. 

FROM FORTIETH ANNUAL REPORT. 

The Fortieth Annnal Report of the Park Board, compiled 
by our predecessors, contains the following (pages 5, 6 and 7): 

"The present Board entered upon its duties March 1, 1898. 
During the year 1898 the Board was compelled to rigidly 
exclude nearly all permanent improvements, in order to 
accommodate itself to the reduced revenue of that year, as 
the City Passenger Railway Company had advanced to the 
former Board, in 1897, $15,000 of the Park Tax, which would 
otherwise have been paid in 1898, and been available for such 
purposes in that year." 

"By careful analysis of the Treasurer's report, it will be 
found that all these matters combined have required a larger 
expenditure than the year 1898. A portion of these Park 
improvements might have been left unfinished until the next 
year, but it was our judgment that it would be the truest 
economy to complete the same during the active season be- 
fore the approach of the winter months, although it necessi- 
tated the members of the Board personally advancing to the 
Treasurer $6,500." 

DEBTS OF PREDECESSORS. 

So that not only is the present condition not unusual, but 
the receipts of 1900 were depleted to the extent of over 
$68,000, including payrolls, interest and sinking fund due 
prior to March 1, to pay expenditures incurred by our pre- 
decessors; and in the year 1901 this present Board has paid 
debts of the Board of 1900 to the extent of $18,751,68, and in 
addition to this has had taken away from it by the Ordinance 
of Hstimates, about $15,000, for an electric lighting plant in 
Druid Hill Park, which is not yet installed, and the money 



for which has not yet been expended, but is in the hands of 
the city today, and in addition has had to pay its usual 
lighting charges, amounting, October i, to $19,588.37. 

IMPROVEMENTS BY NEW BOARD. 

The present Board found the larger part of Carroll Park to 
consist, instead of a park or ground at all, of a multitude of 
holes and excavations, from which clay had been taken for the 
manufacture of brick, all of which had to be filled up with a 
vast quantity of material, and probably 40,000 loads have 
thus far been put in — the refuse from buildings, such as the 
old Customhouse, for example, and other places — in order to 
level it and render it possible to be used for park purposes at 
all; by putting top soil upon it, and otherwise preparing it, 
but in spite of all this difference a large portion of such 
ground has been filled up and reclaimed, so that green grass 
now appears, and more of the ground is constantly being 
filled in day and night. 

INCREASING WORK. 

Clifton Park, while in a fine state during the life of Mr. 
Hopkins, has required an enormous amount of work in the 
way of widening and opening the roads and getting the 
ground in condition for park purposes, and an expenditure, 
which was not at all necessary in years gone by, when the 
parks of the city were only Druid Hill and Patterson, so that 
the situation is not only changed, in reference to what is 
necessary to be done in the parks named, but all the squares 
and streets and monuments and springs, and everything which 
has heretofore been in the charge of independent commis- 
sioners, have, since March, 1900, devolved upon the Park 
Board. 

The new Park Board has added six squares on Fulton 
avenue, and everywhere it has been necessary all over the 
city, and in every square in the city, to resoil them, so as to 
get even the grass to grow, a matter which had been neg- 
lected in all of them, with the exception, perhaps, of Park 
Place and some other notable instances. 



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So far as the financial management of the affairs of the 
Park Board, under the Board appointed in 1900 is concerned, 
it was in charge of most competent and efficient men of the 
finance committee of that Board, namely Messrs. Douglas H. 
Thomas and John B. Ramsay. 

And as to the purchase of supplies, a thoroughly efficient 
and competent committee had that in charge, namely, Messrs. 
Edward L. Bartlett and Howard T. Williams. 

There was also committees on the different parks, each 
committee consisting of two members of the Board. 

THE NEW PLANS. 

As to next year, inasmuch as the greenhouses have been 
completed, or nearly so, and there only remains in contem- 
plation the new barn in place ot the old one, which it is de- 
sired to remove, and the extension of the Palmhouse at 
Druid Hill, it is evident that the receipts, especially when 
the increased travel is taken into consideration, will be en- 
tirely sufficient for all needs next year. 

Under the Rules of the Park Board, the secretary, in addi- 
tion to his other duties, is required to make a monthly report 
of payments, and this is faithfully done, and in addition an 
account is kept which shows the debts incurred daily, accord- 
ing to the requisitions and reports of the superintendents. 

Prior to 1901 the Park Board was not subject to the Board 
of Estimates, and hence until this year the manner of con- 
ducting business, which had always before prevailed, has 
been followed, so that no one was entirely acquainted with 
what was necessary, and the requirement was made this year 
for the first time to comply with the new plans. 

NEW SYSTEM OF CONTRACTING DEBTS. 

As to the Committee on Supplies, the rules required only 
that the members should certify to the bills as correct 
before they were paid, which they faithfully did, but there 
never was a requirement of any Park Board to certify to bills 
when ordered or the debts contracted. Nor was the secretary 



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informed of the amount before the bills were presented and 
certified to by the Committee on Supplies, and hence it was 
impossible for him to say daily, as can be done now, under 
the present management, what debts had been incurred prior 
to the time when the bills were presented for payment. Here- 
tofore, when there was not enough money in the receipts for 
any year, the bills were carried over into the next year, and 
paid out of the receipts of that year, a very simple process, 
which resulted in not confining expenditures to the year in 
which they were incurred, and a practice which it was the 
design of the new Charter and of this administration to 
prevent . 

In applying this change to this — the first complete year of 
the present Board — the contraction has been severe and 
sudden, in the sense that the occasion for it was not under- 
stood and known, but now that it has been accomplished, the 
expenditure of the park funds can be so controlled that the 
incurring of debts beyond the amount appropriated may 
hereafter be prevented. 

The Committee on Supplies consisted of competent and ex- 
perienced gentlemen, who only ordered such things as were 
proper and necessary, and certified to the bills when due, so 
that they did their duty properly in that regard. The duty 
of the Committee of Finance was to estimate the receipts and 
expenditures, which was fully accomplished by the requisi- 
tions to the Board of Estimates, and they were further re- 
quired to report the amounts used for improvements. 

DUTIES OF THE PRESIDENT. 
The President's duties are also fixed by Rules, as follows: 
"The President shall preside at all the meetings of the 
Board, and shall have the power to decide upon all questions 
necessary. He shall sign all pay-rolls. He shall call special 
meetings of the Board whenever he deems it necessary, or 
when requested to do so by two members of the Board. He 
shall appoint all standing committees, and likewise all special 
committees, unless otherwise provided for by a resolution of 



the Board. He shall perform all other executive duties not 
otherwise provided for by the action of the Board, and pre- 
pare an annual report to the Mayor and City Council. 

ROADS IN DRUID HILL. 

When the present Board took charge most of the roads in 
Druid Hill Park were in bad condition — part of them worn 
out to the foundation and all needed repair — the Rotten Rock 
Quarry, the only source of supply for material to make or 
repair roads, had not been worked in winter, as was usually 
done in other years, and there was no material on hand; then 
the system was to have the stone cracked by hand, and we, 
as soon as practicable, put ail men possible at work getting 
out material; we doubled the gangs and worked them over- 
time, so anxious were we to repair the roads, as it was one of 
the first things determined upon after this Board was 
appointed, but with all that effort we were only able, in addi- 
tion to extensive repairs to many of the roads, which, of 
course, took many thousands of perches of material, to entirely 
reconstruct one road, viz., from the Columbus Statue to Pros- 
pect Hill, and that road we are willing shall be inspected and 
judged by anybody competent to do so. 

The rotten rock, which exists in abundance in the Sunken 
Quarry to the west of Prospect Hill, is, when properly put 
down, about the best material for a pleasure road, as it will 
pack, with the use of our new roller, hard enough not to wash 
or get in ruts, and still have enough elasticity to afford pleas- 
ant and smooth riding, in which it is superior to the hard 
Milestone at the western end of Druid L,ake and in front of 
the Wallace Statue. 

IMPROVEMENTS BEGUN. 

At the time we were appointed there was no proper road 
roller in Druid Hill Park, and never had been. There was 
a very large roller suitable for macadam or turnpike roads — 
so suitable that when the City Engineer's Department was 
repairing Pimlico or Park Heights avenue, or doing similar 
work, our roller was borrowed without compensation. It was 



always unsuitable for park work as it mashed down our 
material too much, and made the portion nearer the gutter 
lower than the gutter. Hence it was difficult to have rain 
water carried off properly, and as it was likely to settle at 
some spot and injure the road, it was almost impossible to 
keep them in proper order. To remedy this condition we 
arranged to have the City Engineer's Department buy our 
roller for $1,700, which was the price of a new six-ton roller 
suitable for our work. This we purchased, and with it con- 
structed the road from Columbus Statue to Prospect Hill. 

We now have the best sort of roller for our work to be gotten 
anywhere, and with it can and will put all the roads in first- 
class condition. We found that hand work would not get out 
rotten rock fast enough, even with increased force, and as 
there was a stone-crusher at the disused hard-stone quarry, 
we decided to have it re-erected at the Rotten Rock Quarry, 
because we could get four sizes of stone, and at least four 
times the quantity, with less men than we had been using. 

We invited bids for this work, which ran from two to eight 
hundred dollars, and we had it done for $200, built it, and 
had it, as well as the roller, in service repairing the roads, 
when we were obliged to stop and discharge the men. But 
for this all the roads in Druid Hill Park requiring attention 
would now be in first-class order. The cause and reason for 
this, or the lack of them, we do not mean now to discuss, but 
we had enough material crushed to do much needed repairing 
and to resurface entirely, recently, the South Approach road 
nearly up to the Lake Turn. We will shortly, and before the 
weather becomes severe enough to prevent road work, have 
enough material gotten out to resurface the entire eastern 
portion of Druid Lake drive, and repair such of the western 
portion as requires it, so that as we have gotten our payroll 
to such an average as to permit it, the crusher and roller will 
be run and used the balance of this season to the fullest 
capacity. During the winter months so much additional 
material will be gotten out and crushed of the size required, 



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to enable us in the next season to put in entirely perfect order 
all the roads in Druid Hill Park. We have lost about four 
and one-half months by the stoppage, but next season it will 
all be made up. 

The road round Druid Lake was not constructed by any 
Park Board. Hence this department is not responsible for its 
defects. It was constructed years back by the Water Board, 
and was always so low in the center that water would not run 
off, but all this will be remedied in the reconstruction we will 
make this season. 

CARE OF SQUARES. 

The squares, such as Franklin, Madison, etc., and places 
such as Eutaw, Fulton Avenue, etc., were placed in charge of 
the Park Board for the first time, when the present Board was 
appointed in March, 1900, and how to take care of them was 
a problem. We first divided them into six districts, with an 
assistant superintendent for each district, but after a few 
months' trial found it unsatisfactory, and then adopted the 
present plan of four districts, divided as nearly equal as prac- 
ticable, and each district in charge of one of our four park 
superintendents, with Riverside and Federal Hill in charge of 
an additional superintendent, the division being as follows: 

Druid Hill District. — Fulton, Eutaw, Harlem, Park Place, 
Brewer and Liberty Triangle Squares. 

Clifton District. — Johnston, Collington, Mount Royal Ter- 
race, Mount Royal, Bolton, Taney Place and Mt. Vernon 
Squares. 

Carroll District. — Wilkens Avenue, Union, Franklin, 
Lafayette and Perkins Spring Squares. 

Patterson District. — Broadway, Madison, Jackson and 
Eastern City Springs Squares. 

This has proved so satisfactory that in Druid District, for 
example, we have employed for the entire district less men 
than have heretofore been employed in Druid Hill Park alone, 
and in the other districts the result has also been equalty 
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NOT THOROUGHLY REALIZED. 

But little more money has been spent in 190 1 than appro- 
priated; in fact, not as much up to October 18 as appears 
by Statement Nos. 1 and 2, but bills have been contracted 
which, because of the back expenditures of 1899 and 1900, 
would amount to more than the appropriation for 1901. 
The payment of these amounts, however, has all been pro- 
vided for in the Ordinance of Estimates of 1902, and hence 
not only will nobody lose anything, but there never was any 
prospect of anybody losing anything, and while the Charter 
and all laws should be strictly adhered to, we think we 
hazard little in saying that there are other departments and 
other people by whom the requirements have not been reali- 
zed or understood. Indeed, some of its requirements are not 
realized by the most experienced, of which frequent instances 
are constantly occurring, not that intentional violations 
would be thereby justified, but when this is the first year 
that such requirements have existed, it may not be sur- 
prising that they have not been thoroughly realized, and 
when it is understood that no one has lost or can lose any- 
thing because of the transactions of this Board, and that the 
city will be largely and permanently beautified and benefited 
by what we have done, we are content to have our inten- 
tions, plans, purposes and results passed upon. 

WORK ACCOMPLISHED. 

Among other things, we have done the following : 
Taken down the iron fence on North avenue on each side 
of the Mount Royal entrance, as well as stone posts and fence 
running north; had them sold and the money paid to the 
Comptroller. 

Established at Mount Royal gate one of the handsomest 
rhododendron beds in the country and another at Madison 
avenue gate, as well as five magnificent beds about Eutaw 
and Madison avenue, including azalea and roses, and a fine 
new one on Mount Royal avenue. A fine bed at Sea Eion 



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Pond, a large rhododendron bed at Green Spring avenue gate, 
and many new rhododendrons and other plants in the sunken 
ground near that gate. 

Opened about five miles of horseback paths through woods 
in Druid Hill Park. 

Made long new footpath north of Druid L,ake. 

Made new bridle path from Pumphouse west. 

Planted two rows of shade trees on South Approach. 

Removed wagon shed from opposite Evergreen Terrace. 

Opened new entrance to Druid Hill Park at the intersection 
of Fulton avenue and Evergreen Terrace, and many other 
things which can be shown upon inspection. 

At Clifton Park, finished new avenue to Belair road. 

Opened new road to Erdman avenue. 

Opened new avenue to Harford road, connecting Montebello 
with Clifton Park; so Clifton is now practically almost twice 
the size and amount of usefulness as when we took charge. 
Our Board inaugurated and continued the agitation, in conse- 
quence of which about thirteen acres south of L,ake Monte- 
bello was acquired by the city, and the uniting of Clifton and 
Montebello made practicable. 

Inaugurated and continued the efforts because of which 
Grasshopper Hill will be acquired. 

Completed the addition to Clifton Park at the corner of 
Erdman avenue and Harford road. 

Purchased addition to Carroll Park, corner of Columbia 
avenue and Bayard street. 

Restored conservatory in Patterson Park to use, after it had 
been closed a year or two. 

Brought Patterson Park, which was much out of order, into 
fine condition, including grounds and roads, and did in all of 
the parks and squares many things necessary to bring them 
all into a condition believed to be superior to that heretofore 
existing, all of which an inspection will show. 

Purchased and paid for Gwynn's Falls Park, which will 
become one of the most attractive and useful of all of the 
parks. 



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Purchased Fort Avenue Park, title now being examined by 
the City Solicitor. 

AS TO THE BILLS. 

The greenhouses were largely built by our own labor, and 
under the system pursued by the Board of Awards, contracts 
had been entered into between the City and the dealers fur- 
nishing all such material as brick, lumber, glass, paint, and, 
in fact, almost everything required, at the lowest prices, 
ascertained after competitive bidding, so that when it was 
determined to erect the greenhouses the Committee on Sup- 
plies, after ascertaining the material required, gave the order 
for it, and when the bills were presented approved them, if 
correct, so in building these houses the Board had the advan- 
tage of the lowest prices obtainable. 

It will be found that some of the bills were for more than 
$500, but, of course, where such bills were rendered by 
parties with whom the City already had contracts, awarded by 
the Board of Awards, the law as to the advertisement of com- 
petitive bidding had already been complied with, and no other 
advertisement was either required or would have been proper 
in reference to such materials. Again, bills beyond $500 may 
be found to include more than one order, and nowhere have 
purchases been made by the Committee on Supplies beyond 
the sum of $500. 

Prior to the Act of 1900 the expenditures of the Park Board 
were not subject to the Ordinance of Estimates, and the Ordi- 
nance of 1 901 (this present year) is the first one passed in 
which its expenditures have been allowed by Ordinance. 
Prior to that time they were regulated only by the Board, and 
paid by the City Officials, upon their approval, and even 
under the new Charter it was provided that the Board should 
have the disposal of its revenues; it being made subject to the 
Charter because of an amemdment to that instrument passed 
by the Legislature of 1900, at the request of the Mayor, as we 
have been informed. 



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BILLS PAID BY COMPTROLLER. 

Another matter we wish to have understood is this, 
namely: That the Park Board keeps no bank account, has 
no money for any purpose, as all the money received from the 
railways is paid directly to the Comptroller, as well as money 
for the smallest articles sold, rents collected and any and 
everything. 

All bills must be approved by the Comptroller before they 
are paid, and are paid by checks signed by the Register and 
the Mayor, so that all those bills carried over from the year 
1899, an ^ those contracted in 1900, before our Board took 
charge, amounting to $43,936.85, were approved and paid by 
those three officials; so also all bills of the present Board con- 
tracted in 1900 — last year — amounting to $86,830.53, were 
also approved and paid in the same way, so that their pay- 
ment was fully known to those officials. 

These are a few of the matters which we have thought 
would be of assistance to your committee, although many 
things we necessarily omitted on account of lack of space, but 
shall be glad to give all and any further information that 
you may desire. 

By order of the Board, 

(Signed) J. V. Kelly, Secretary. 



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37 



EXHIBIT No. 5 



Estimated Cost of Greenhouses in Each of the Parks, from 

the Beginning of their Construction in 

October 1900 to Date. 



DRUID HILL PARK. 



Material. 

Lumber and Millwork — 

Number. 

October, 1900, 40 Gill & Son $ 7731 

November, 1900, 27 Duker and Co 102 55 

November, 1900, 41 Gill & Son 5024 

December, 1900, 24 Duker & Co 133 50 

December, 1900, 42 Gill & Son 89 29 

January, 1901, 39 Gill & Son 29 60 

February, 1901, 61 Gill & Son 540 

March, 1901, 62 Gill & Son 10208 

March, 1901, 58 Duker & Co 4800 

June, igor, File Gill & Son 34 73 

July, 1901, File Duker & Co 21 60 

August, 1901, File Duker & Co 453 10 

August, igor, File Gill & Son 173 23 

September, 1901, File Gill & Son 107 28 

October, 1901, File Duker & Co 900 

$1,436 9 1 
Constructural Iron and Piping — 

November, 1900, File Crook, Horner $221 55 

December, 15, 1900, 7 Crook, Horner 364 98 

December, 31, 1900, 12 Crook, Horner 301 69 

April, 1901, File Crook, Horner 21 18 

May, 1901, File Crook, Horner 3 55 

June, 1901, File Basshor Co 64 08 

$977 03 

Glass, Putty, Paint, Etc.— 

November, 1900 20 Bolton Bros $164 35 

December, 1900 15 Bolton Bros 14 30 

August, igor, File Bolton Bros r, 609 84 



$1,788 49 



Bricks- 
July, 1901, File 
September, igor, File 



Baltimore Brick Co. 
Baltimore Brick Co. 



$ 80 00 
792 25 



12 25 



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Cement — Number. 

March, 1901, 65 Clarke & Son $ 13 50 

June, 1901, File Bullock & Son ior 30 

Juh^, 1901, File Bullock & Son 102 50 

August, 1901, File Bullock & Sou 165 30 

September, 1901, File Bullock & Son 1 25 

September, 1901, File Clarke & Son 35 00 

$418 85 

Hardware — 

August, 1901, File Brown & Son $10 55 

September, 1901, File Brown & Son 15 51 

$26 06 

Boilers — 

November 14, 1900, (L. B.) H. B. Smith Co $47° 00 

October 5, 1900, (Exp. Bk.) Crook, Horner 495 00 

$965 00 

Ventilating — 

November, 1900, 9 Crook, Horner $10 40 

fio 40 

Total cost of material $ 6,494 99 



Outside Labor. 

Steam Fitting — 

November 9, 1900, 

to Feb. 7, 1901, 59 Crook, Horner $ 688 60 

Aug. and Sept., 1901, File Crook, Horner 1,073 43 

Bricklaying — 

January, 1901, 67 Burke |66 50 

February, 1901, File Burke 21 00 

April, 1901, File Burke 2841 

May, 1901, File Burke 32 03 

August, 1901, File Plaenker & P 805 26 

September, 1901, File Plaenker & P 32 25 

October, 1901, File Plaenker & P 32 64 

Tinning — 

August, 1901, File Koehlepp $8400 

Total of outside labor and material 

Labor (Park Payroll). 

Carpenters, 311 days, at $2.50 per day $777 50 

Painters, 26 days, at $ 2.00 per day 52 00 

Laborers, 542 days, at $1.66% per day 903 00 

Foreman, 135 days, at $2.00 per day 270 00 

Carts, 714 days, at $2.25 per day 1,606 50 

Waterboy, 210 days, at 50 cents 105 00 

Hntire cost of Greenhouses (estimated) 



51,762 03 



- $1,049 29 



,39° 3 1 



$8,714 00 
$13,104 31 



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CLIFTON PARK. 



Material. 

Lumber and Millwork — 

Number. 

October, 1900, 40 Gill & Son $12574 

November, 1900, 41 Gill & Son 125 12 

November, 1900, 29 Duker & Co 291 10 

December, 1, 1900, 28 Duker & Co 373 70 

December, 5, 1900, 30 Duker & Co 15000 

December, 1900, 42 Duker & Co 255 18 

January, 1901, 39 Gill & Son 190 76 

January, 1901, 22 Duker & Co 2 75 

February 12,1901, 61 Gill & Son 20 74 

July 18, 1901, File Duker & Co 2280 

$1-557 59 
Constructural Iron and Piping — 

November 6, 1900, 4 Stebbens $ 49 43 

December 1, 1900, 35 Crook, Horner 360 16 

Decembers, 1900, 8 Crook, Horner 407 01 

December 14, 1900, 6 Crook, Horner 10 80 

January, 1901, 38 W. W. Kirk 228 43 

February, 1901, 38 W. W. Kirk no 25 

$r,i66 08 

Glass, Putty, Paint, Etc.— 

November, 1900, 18 Bolton Bros $5 l 3 7° 

December, 1900, 17 Bolton Bros 674 97 

February 1, 1901, 36 Bolton Bros 73 23 

Feb. 6,-12, 1901, 37 Bolton Bros 3001 

$1,291 91 

Bricks — 

December 14, 1900, 45 Baltimore Brick Co.... $20 00 

$20 00 

Cement — 

January 17, 1901 51 Bullock & Son $10 06 

April 30, 1901, 64 Bullock & Son 1009 

$20 15 

Hardware — 

December, 1900, 44 Brown & Son $ 4 68 

January, 1901 43 Brown & Son 51 30 

September, 1901, 12 Brown & Son 241 

$58 39 

Boilers — 

November 1, 1900, (L.B.) H. B. Smith $375 00 

$375 00 

Ventilating Apparatus- 
November 27, 1900, 66 Carmody $8900 

$89 00 

Total cost material $4,578 12 



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Outside Labor. 

Steam Fitting — 

Number. 

November, 1900, 38 W. W. Kirk $ 53 89 

December, 1900, Pile Crook, Horner 190 00 

January, 1901, File Crook, Horner 191 00 

January, 1901, 3S W. W. Kirk 233 95 

February, 1901, 38 W. W. Kirk 165 00 

Tinning — 

December 31, 1900, 3 E. Mills, Jr $10865 

Total outside labor and material 

Labor (Park Payrolls). 

Carpenters, 328 days, at $2.50 per day $820 00 

Painters, 138 days, at $2.00 per day 276 00 

Bricklaying, 72 days, at $2.50 per day 180 00 

Laborers, (special), 149 days, at $1.66% per day 248 33^3 

Laborers, (general), 376 days, at $2.50 per day 626 6673 

Entire cost of greenhouses (estimated) 



$833 84 

$108 65 
5.52o 61 



$2,151 00 
$7,671 61 



PATTERSON PARK. 



Haterial. 

Lumber and Millwork — 

Number. 

October, 1900, 32 Matthews $ 152 07 

October, 1900, 40 Gill & Son 281 24 

November, 1900, 33 Matthews 11 55 

November, 1900, 41 Gill & Son 419 S3 

December, 1900, 23, 26, 21 Duker & Co 321 79 

December, 1900, 42 Gill & Sou 78 29 

February, 190 r, 61 Gill & Son 2200 

March, 1901, 58 Duker & Co 75 40 

March, 1901, 62 Gill & Son 568 03 

April, 1901, File Gill & Son 199 18 

May, 1901, File Gill & Son 2179 

July, 1901, File Gill & Son 19484 

$ 2,346 01 
Constructural Iron and Piping — 

November, 1900, 48 Crook, Horner $ 16 22 

December, 1900, 5 Stebbens 432 96 

May, 1901, File Crook, Horner 38 41 

July, 1901, File Crook, Horner 21 60 

Aug., Sept., 1901, File Crook, Horner 262 64 

$ 771 83 



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Glass, Putty, Paint, etc. — 

Number. 

November, 1901, 21 Bolton 

December, 1900, 14 Bolton 35 38 

March, 1901, 57 Bolton 415 71 

April, 1901, File Bolton 170 00 

May, 1901, File Bolton 361 88 

June, 1901, File Bolton 240 54 

September, 1901, File Bolton 33 20 

$ 1,679 93 

Bricks — 

December, 1900, 53 Baltimore B. Co $15 50 

April, 1901, File Baltimore B. Co 15 00 

May, 1901, File Baltimore B. Co 20 00 

August, 1901, 11, 9 Baltimore B. Co 3 50 

$54 00 

Cement — 

March, April, 1901, 64 Bullock $2259 

May, 1901, File Bullock 10 00 

June, 1901, File • Bullock 10 09 

September, 1901, File Bullock 5 25 

$47 93 

Hardware — 

December, 1900, 44 Brown & Son $[S 26 

Nos. 8, 25, 71, 76, Brown & Son 15 94 

$34 20 

Boilers — 
October 27, 1900, (L.B.) H. B. Smith $250 00 

Ventilating Apparatus — 

November, 1900, 66 Carmody $18 00 

February, 1901, 56 Kirk 20 13 

April, 1901, 63 Carmody 21 00 

59 r 3 

Total cost of material $5,243 03 



Outside Labor. 

Steam Fittings — 

September, 1900, 10 Crook, Horner $3^950 

Nov., Dec, 1900, 50 Crook, Horner 300 21 

June, 1901, File Crook, Horner 389 90 

1,088 61 

Total outside labor and material $6,331 64 



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Labor Park Payroll). 

Laborers, $i.66 2 ^ per day, 147 days $245 00 

Bricklayers, $3.00 per day, 37^3 days 137 00 

Carpenters, $2. 50 per day, 161 days 372 50 

Laborers, $i.66 2 3 per day, 29 4-8 days 49 09 

(Painting and Glazing) 

Blacksmith, $2.00 per da}-, 37 days 74 00 



Total cost of all the Greenhouses (estimated). 



$ S77 59 
,209 23 



CARROLL PARK. 



Lumber and Millwork- 



October, 1900, 
October, 1900, 
November, 1900, 
November, 1900, 
December, 1900, 
February, 1901, 
March, 1901, 
April, 1901, 
July, 1901, 
August, 1901, 



Number. 

34 
40 

25 

4i 

42 

61 

File 

File 

File 

File 



Constructural Iron and Piping- 
November 8, 1900, 55 
November 13, 1900, 11 
December 12, 1900, 47 
February 28, 1901, File 
March 30, 1901, File 
April 11, 1901, File 
June, 1901, File 
July, 1901, File 
August, 1901, File 
September, 30, 1901, File 
September, 1901, File 

Glass, Putty, Paint, etc. — 

November, 1900, 19 

December, 1900, 16 

January, 1901, 52 

April, 1901, 60 

May, 1901, File 

June, 1901, File 

August, 1901, File 



naterial. 



T.Mathews $176 60 

Gill & Son 344 94 

Duker & Co 424 68 

Gill & Son 58 36 

Gill & Son 217 93 

Gill & Son 45 41 

Gill & Son 512 44 

Gill & Son 592 86 

Gill & Son 219 55 

Gill & Son 226 24 

$2,819 01 

Stebbens $13908 

Crook, Horner 57 08 

Crook, Horner 69 00 

Crook, Horner 40 78 

Crook, Horner 6 30 

Crook, Horner 5 79 

Mallory 362 87 

Mallory 39483 

Mallory 466 69 

Crook, Horner 314 69 

Mallory 47449 

$ 2,331 60 

B olton $595 93 

Bolton 20 64 

Bolton 41 60 

Bolton 85000 

Bolton 68 00 

Bolton 342 5S 

Bolton 105 05 



$ 2,023 s° 



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Bricks — 

Number. 

AprilS, 1901, File Baltimore Brick Co.... $304 00 

July 24, 1901, File Baltimore Brick Co.... 24 50 

August 3, 1901, File Baltimore Brick Co.... 10075 

$429 25 

Cement — 

April, 1901, ' 64 Bullock $11990 

July, 1901, File Bullock 1090 

$130 80 

Hardware — 

December, 1900, 44 Brown & Son $21 15 

June, July & Aug. 

1901, File Brown & Son 44 79 

September, 1901, 34 Brown & Son 5 02 

$70 96 

Boilers — 

October 27, 1900, (L.B). H.B.Smith $375 00 

June 19, 1901, (L.B). H. B. Smith 375 00 

$750 00 

Electric Wiring — 

December 7, 1900, 1 Walther & Co $3042 

#30 42 

Total cost of material $8,724 92 

Outside Labor. 

Steam Fitting — 

September 30, 1900, 13 Crook, Horner $48 26 

Nov. & Dec, 1900, 49 Crook, Horner 442 79 

December 31, 1900, 46 Crook, Horner 118 41 

April 16, 1901, File Crook, Horner 132 30 

June, 1901, File Crook, Horner 240 00 

July, 1901, File Crook, Horner 252 00 

August, 1901, File Crook, Horner 234 00 

September, 1901, File Crook, Horner 246 00 

$L7i3 76 

Bricklaying and Cementing — 

June, 1901, File Burk $179 1 

Total outside labor and material $10,617 81 

Labor (Park Payroll). 

1 Boss Carpenter, 298 days at $3 00 per day $ 894 00 

Carpenters, 426 days at 2 50 per day 1,065 00 

Laborers, 345 days at 1 6673 per day 575 00 

Carts, 96 days at 2 25 per day 216 00 

Painters, 211 days at 2 00 per day 422 00 

$3,172 00 

Entire cost of Greenhouses (estimated) $ I 3,7S9 81 



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SUMMARY. 

Druid Hill Park- 
Materials $6,494 99 

Outside labor 2,895 32 

Park labor 3>7 r 4 00 

$i3.io4 3i 

Clifton Park- 
Material $4,578 12 

Outside labor 942 49 

Park labor 2,151 00 

$7,671 61 

Patterson Park — 

Material $5,243 °3 

Outside labor 1,088 61 

Park labor 877 59 

— $7,209 23 

Carroll Park- 
Material $8,724 92 

Outside labor 1,892 89 

Park labor 3,172 00 

$13,789 81 

$41,774 96 
EXHIBIT No. 6. 

Deputy Register's Statement. 

Cost of maintenance of Druid Hill and Patterson Parks, 1890, $127,- 
305.35 from park tax; of all other squares and parks, $42,438.11 from 
direct tax (appropriation). Receipts of park tax, $170,130.37. 

Neither Collington Squares, Carroll Park, Federal Hill, Riverside 
Park nor Clifton Park were included in the above. 

In 1891 the cost of maintenance of above was $218,965.04, while the 
receipts from park tax were $179,194.98. 

Up to about this time the City Passenger Railway Company was 
accustomed to advance from $6,000 to $10,000 monthly, as far back as 
1874, on account of the quarterly tax on which the city allowed five 
per cent, interest. 

Expenditures. Receipts. 

1892 $211,66725 ($3,000 appropriated $199,23455 

1893 218,953 37 for Music). 217,269 64 

1894 224,691 81 225,80435 

1895 237,462 38 238,675 15 

1896 249,468 21 249,403 59 

1897 266,844 92 266,449 98 

1898 250,22808 251,69498 

1899 277,306 49 272,858 28 

I9°° 296,594 73 295,332 13 

I hereby certify that the above is a correct statement, as shown by 
the records in this office. 

(Signed) J. SEWELL THOMAS, 

Deputy Register 



45 

EXHIBIT No. 7. 
Extracts from Minutes of the Board. 

March 11, 1897. 

Cost of maintenance to April 10, 1897 $12,448 00 

Cash on hand 9.954 *4 

Deficit $2,493 86 

June 8, 1897. 

Cost of maintenance to July 10, 1897 $18,984^00 

Cash on hand 5^32 

Deficit $18,468 68 

At this period expenses varied much, some months being about 
$12,000.00 and others about $19,000.00. 

On July 8, 1897, the deficiency of $12,432.96 was shown, and the sum 
of $1,523.57 to pay expenses from August to October, two months, 
about one-half enough. 

On November 11, 1897, the secretary was authorized to borrow the 
sum of $20,000.00 for sixty days on the best arrangements he could 
make, provided the Board had the power to do so, which question was 
referred to Mr. George R. Willis, who decided that there was no such 
power, but that an advance might be obtained from the railways, and 
on November 16, 1897, the secretary was authorized to obtain an 
advance of $15,000.00 from the railways and to pay six per cent, 
interest upon it, which was done and continued to be done from time 
to time until Mayor Hayes determined that it was illegal, and prohi- 
bited it shortly before the retirement of the predecessors of this Board, 
and required an advance obtained by them to be returned to the rail- 
way company, so that this Board never had the advantage of this 
practice. 

November 9, 1899. 

Bills awaiting adjustment $ 2 ,7 00 °° 

Bills for November, estimated 3>5°° °o 

Payrolls, November and December, estimated 15. 000 °° 

$21,200 00 
Cash on hand 7, 178 3 2 

Deficit, estimated $14,021 68 

The treasurer's report of this date contains the following: 

"The increase in the amount of expenditures during the months of 
June, July, August and September was about $7,550.00, thus making an 
excess of expenditures over 1898 of $16,550.00, which amount would 
be covered by the estimated deficit for 1899, and provided a balance 
sufficient to carry this department until the receipts of the fourth quar- 
ter's tax in January next. 

"It was impossible to forsee this condition, as estimates were based 
upon the figures for 1898 for a basis, and we were not informed as to 
the extent of expenditures, and had called attention to the fact that 



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the money would not be sufficient to pay all the demands unless there 
was a decided decrease in the working force and the amount of 
material ordered. 

"The ratio of expenditures existing prior to July i, 1899, was not 
only maintained, but materially increased during the months mentioned 
and from the fact of the payment of bills being witheld during this 
period, this office had no means of determining the amount necessary 
to be paid out of the third quarter's receipts. 

"May I suggest that the payment of all billls be witheld and the 
working force in the separate parks be reduced to such an extent as to 
avoid showing deficit for the year 1899?" 

This was the official statement of the condition on that date, and the 
minutes containing that report were approved at the next regular 
meeting, held December 21, 1899, so that it can be readily seen what 
the condition was at that time — this was about three months before 
the present Board took charge. 



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